Battle of Aachen, (13 September– 21 October 1944)
Colonel Wilck and his headquarters group after their surrender. Located on the western border of Germany, the city of Aix-la- Chapelle, later Aachen, had been the capital of the Holy Roman Empire; Charlemagne was crowned emperor there in the year 800. Since German dictator Adolf Hitler considered Charlemagne to be the founder of the first […]
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